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242 struggle as much as possible, we left the Murphys, promising to send for their servant and conveyances, so that they might leave the place at once, even Sergeant Murphy acknowledging that he had had enough of it.

“All the gould of Injia,” said he, “wouldn’t timpt me to keep the wife and childer in this drairy house another night: no, not if I’d be made guvernor of ould Ireland for it. And poor Kerry, if he could spake, which he can’t, being aten up enthirely—letting alone his being but a dumb baste—would say the same.” G. P. S.